Sumption

Behind this false as sumption was my complete misunderstanding of both God and the meaning of total commitment. ❋ Chip Ingram (2009)

For the first time someone had made the correct as - sumption about Stefan's model. ❋ Reid, Michelle (2002)

Everyone else would be operating under the as - sumption that Kylen Elessedil and the Elven High Council fully supported the expedition and anticipated its safe and successful return. ❋ Brooks, Terry (2000)

SPVs are a form of financial engineering-based on the as - sumption of rising share prices-and use a ring-fenced mechanism whereby a lender takes downside risks when things go wrong. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Measles increases the con-sumption of vitamin A and often precipitates xerophthalmia. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Descartes 'dualism involved the as - sumption that the behavior of the body, below the level of willed action, could be explained mechanically. ❋ R. S. PETERS (1968)

However, if the as - sumption that by using some sufficiently small unit of length, both the side and diagonal of a square can be exactly measured, can be shown to lead to contra - diction, then one may conclude that such a unit of length cannot possibly exist; i.e., that the side and diagonal are incommensurable. ❋ RAYMOND L. WILDER (1968)

The underlying as - sumption is that names were consciously invented by an original name-giver, who may well have had more than one reason for a certain choice. ❋ ALVAR ELLEG (1968)

Their whole argument, however, indicates an implicit as - sumption, similar to Plato's, that language was invented by rational men. ❋ ALVAR ELLEG (1968)

Of this, the most general principles are valid for any social order; while (somewhat) intelligent beings engage in production, distribution, and con - sumption and form a society, “economic” decisions will be made, by some units and for some units — wisely or otherwise — and details do not affect the abstract theory. ❋ FRANK H. KNIGHT (1968)

In a progressive society, a person's con - sumption of capital merely subtracts something from its growth in the whole economy. ❋ FRANK H. KNIGHT (1968)

Lastly, Helmholtz fully shared the general pre - sumption that acoustics is a theory of waves, that is, ❋ SALOMON BOCHNER (1968)

In the West, the theology of dispersal to which we have alluded, and the corresponding popular as - sumption that the pre-Babel lingua Adamica was ❋ HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD (1968)

This whole conception is based frankly on the as - sumption that armed by the insights of Marxist-Lenin - ism, the Communist Party knows better what the true interests of the working class are than the workers know themselves; that it cannot give the workers their head but must, if necessary, restrain or compel them for their own good. ❋ SIDNEY HOOK (1968)

Finally, the paradox can be overcome by the as - sumption that the stars, or rather the galaxies, are not distributed homogeneously, but, on the contrary, are concentrated in clusters, “hierarachically” so. ❋ SALOMON BOCHNER (1968)

The first was the use of a deliberate government deficit (excess of expenditure over receipts) to increase total con - sumption when needed, and similarly, a surplus (excess of receipts over expenditures) to diminish consumption when the need is to prevent inflation. ❋ KENNETH E. BOULDING (1968)

The tendency to im - mobilize poetry was strengthened by a customary as - sumption in Greek literature (found also in Sanskrit poetry and the Vedas): the first known of its poets is also the greatest. ❋ E. N. TIGERSTEDT (1968)

This mathematical as - sumption runs counter to the indisputable hypothesis of basic physics and chemistry that matter is atomistic, or molecular; but, operationally, the theory of contin - uous media has been overwhelmingly successful and it is simply indispensable for many contexts. ❋ SALOMON BOCHNER (1968)

'He was th' man that come in con-sumption's dreaded form, 'says I,' an 'he was afraid iv no man.' ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)

I am in hopes the assumption will be put into a just form, by assuming to the creditors of each State in proportion to the census of each State, so that the State will be exonerated towards its creditors just as much as it will have to contribute to the as sumption, and consequently no injustice done. — ❋ Unknown (1900)

'Good [grief] man, get rid of that silly Sumption before you leave the house'. Look at the Sumption on that, what a [twit]. Trim my Sumption [my good] man, make sure it's 'relavant' to the youth. ❋ Postman Patois (2009)